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Causeway hires water and funds director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
Causeway Asset Management has appointed Richard Lourey as managing director of water and fund management ahead of plans to launch a water fund. Lourey previously worked across capital markets in Australia, London and New York at ANZ Securities, Ord ...

Ganging up on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... Nein! Nyet! Japan remains worried about deflation. So much so that on the same day the GDP report was released, it announced plans for new budget spending. The rising yen is exacerbating the deflation in the country by making import prices cheaper. And ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... than two years in the latest quarter. Sentiment was hit by fears of a wave of new share issues, with Hitachi announcing plans to raise $US4.6 billion ($A4.93 billion) to shore up shaky finances. The benchmark Nikkei-225 index edged up 20.87 points, or ...

State Street wins $2.2bn Canadian mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... disability and health benefit funds," she said. State Street already provides investment services to the 10 largest pension plans in Canada. Kevin Drynan, president at State Street Trust Company Canada, said the appointment reflected the firm's long-standing ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... manage it themselves, I am not interested in stopping them." On the subject of regulation, Bowen said he currently has no plans to change the Australian Tax Office's role as the regulator of SMSFs, although he said the Cooper Review could, in the future ...

AXA IM appoints head of Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of Asia Pacific and plans to expand its sales team in the region. It is understood Leoni replaces Anthony Fasso, former chief executive of AXA Rosenberg Asia Pacific and AXA IM ...

Treasury Group to announce Souls strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
Treasury Group has bought Souls Funds Management and plans to announce a new investment team line-up following the resignation of the fund manager's chief investment officer, Frank Villante, this month. Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury Group ...

IMAP elects chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... provider IAS but has now left the firm to become a managed accounts consultant for planning groups, said that the institute plans to ramp up its activities over the next 12 months. This includes a series of bi-monthly meetings in Sydney and Melbourne ...

ING wins $1bn employer super book

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... 'Project Nova', paid off with ING Australia only losing one of those employers out of 41 possible clients. Those employer plans are now in the process of being moved to ING Australia's Corporate Super suite. "This process would cause a 'trigger event' ...

Canadian pensions pounce on Aus toll road firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
The Canada Pension Plan and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, two of the biggest pension plans in Canada, set its sights on Australian-based toll road owner and operator group, Transurban. Australia's super fund infrastructure asset strategy appears to ...